Relier Pairs Past PerfectVersion en ligne The PAST PERFECT TENSE indicates that an action was completed (finished or "perfected") at some point in the past before something else happened. This tense is formed with the past tense form of "to have" (HAD) plus the past participle of the verb (which can be either regular or irregular in form) par Rubén Cordero 1 We had never seen a 2 I had not done 3 She had prepared 4 Had you met dinner before leaving for work that day. her before? all my homework when I went to class. whale before our trip.